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Henry Raeburn’s portrait of Robert Burns had been missing for more than 200 years until it was discovered during a house clearance & sold at auction in 2025. It is on display in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway until 1 November – free, no booking required
https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/burns-portrait-returns-to-poets-birthplace
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #romanticism #portrait #painting #visualart #18thcentury #19thcentury #Raeburn #HenryRaeburn
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Dick Gaughan sings Robert Burns’s “Song, Composed in August” (“Now Westlin Winds”), live at Harvard, 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vZ7oYCx6tBw
#Scottish #literature #poetry #song #folksong #RobertBurns #18thcentury #nature #environment
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Now westlin winds, and slaught’ring guns
Bring Autumn’s pleasant weather;
And the moorcock springs, on whirring wings,
Amang the blooming heather…—Robert Burns, “Song, Composed in August”
First published in POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT (Kilmarnock, 1786)Pages digitised by the National Library of Scotland
#Scottish #literature #poetry #song #folksong #RobertBurns #18thcentury #nature #environment
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The Three Robins
9 September, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Free, ticketed.A talk on “The Three Robins: R. Burns, R. Fergusson and R. Louis Stevenson” presented by Prof David Purdie, MD. Medical Professor Emeritus & Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #RobertFergusson #RobertLouisStevenson #poetry #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury
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Listen to Ossian’s version of Robert Burns’ “Corn Rigs”, from their 1981 album SEAL SONG:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU6f21Bdsbg&list=PLF04F88F9D6E44609
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #song #18thcentury #folksong #RobertBurns #Lammas #LammasDay #romanticism #Scots #Scotslanguage
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It was upon a Lammas night,
When corn rigs are bonie,
Beneath the moon’s unclouded light,
I held awa to Annie…—Robert Burns, “Corn Rigs”
pages from Robert Burns: Selected Poems & Songs (OUP, 2013)Today, 1 August, is Lammas Day
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/selected-poems-and-songs-9780199682324?cc=gb&lang=en&
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #song #18thcentury #folksong #RobertBurns #Lammas #LammasDay #romanticism #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Copies of the first edition of Robert Burns’s POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT are 3 times rarer than the Shakespeare First Folio. Patrick Scott & Allan Young are tracking the histories of surviving Kilmarnock Editions
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/kilmarnock-burns-book-history/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #RobertBurns #romanticism #BookHistory
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Burns – in serious financial, & legal, difficulties, mostly of his own making – was on his way to Greenock to take passage to Jamaica, where he had been offered the job of book-keeper on a slave plantation, when news reached him that his book had been enthusiastically received. He decided to stay in Scotland, & attempt a poetical career.
#Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #RobertBurns #romanticism #BookHistory
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“You will have heard that I am going to commence Poet in print; and to-morrow my works go to the press. I expect it will be a volume of about two hundred pages. It is just the last foolish action I intend to do—and then turn a wise man as fast as possible.”
The “Kilmarnock Edition” of Robert Burns’s Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect was published #OTD, 31 July, 1786.
#Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #RobertBurns #romanticism #BookHistory
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In his poem "The Master's Apron," Robert Burns describes the Masonic apron as
'the ancient badge wi' the apron strings.'
Masonic aprons come in many sizes and colours and are worn in several different styles while still being universal to Craft Masonry.
The full poem can be read at:
https://www.robertburns59.org/the-masters-apron-modern-english/#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Poetry #RobertBurns
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Copies of the first edition of Robert Burns’s POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT are 3 times rarer than the Shakespeare First Folio. Patrick Scott & Allan Young are tracking the histories of surviving Kilmarnock Editions
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/kilmarnock-burns-book-history/
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #RobertBurns #BookHistory #poetry
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Rare first edition of Burns’s Kilmarnock Edition goes on display at Edinburgh Writers’ Museum
Printed in Kilmarnock & published on 21 July 1786 in a run of just over 600 copies, only around 90 copies are known to survive today & each copy is different
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #RobertBurns #BookHistory #poetry
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230 years ago today, #RobertBurns, Scottish #poet (Auld Lang Syne) considered the national poet of Scotland, died at 37.
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“It is apparent from Burns’s correspondence, his poetry, and even from his First Commonplace Book that the bard was plagued by ill health on several occasions throughout his short life”
—From the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies’ “Editing Robert Burns” blog
4/4
https://burnsc21.glasgow.ac.uk/robert-burns-and-death/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism
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“This Sonnet I have written in a strange mood, half asleep. I know not how it is, the Clouds, the sky, the Houses, all seem anti Grecian & anti Charlemagnish—”
Fame & Judgement: Keats at Burns’s Tomb (1818)
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https://keatslettersproject.com/correspondence/fame-and-judgement-keats-at-burnss-tomb/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertBurns #Keats #JohnKeats #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism
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I shiver, Spirit fierce and bold,
At thought of what I now behold:
As vapours breathed from dungeons cold,
Strike pleasure dead,
So sadness comes from out the mould
Where Burns is laid…—William Wordsworth, “At the Grave of Burns, 1803, Seven Years After His Death”
William Wordsworth has a go at a Standard Habbie
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Wordsworth #WilliamWordsworth #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism
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Is there a whim-inspired fool,
Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule,
Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool,
Let him draw near…Robert Burns (1759–96) died #OTD, 21 July, aged 37. “A Bard’s Epitaph” is the final poem in the 1786 Kilmarnock Edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism
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“Regardless of its provenance & authorship, ‘The Tree of Liberty’ openly relies on Burns the writer & national icon for its effectiveness…”
—Corey E. Andrews, “Radical Attribution: Robert Burns & ‘The Liberty Tree’”
Studies in Scottish Literature 41/1, 20153/3
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol41/iss1/15/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertBurns #BastilleDay #quatorzejuillet #18thcentury #19thcentury #radicalism
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Robbie Coltrane reads “The Tree of Liberty” (attributed to Robert Burns) on BBC Sounds
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zwz50
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertBurns #BastilleDay #quatorzejuillet #18thcentury #19thcentury
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Heard ye o’ the tree o’ France,
I watna what’s the name o’t;
Around it a’ the patriots dance,
Weel Europe kens the fame o’t…—“The Tree of Liberty”, attributed to Robert Burns (disputed). First printed in Chambers’ THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS (1838)
A poem for 🇫🇷 Bastille Day!
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertBurns #BastilleDay #quatorzejuillet #18thcentury #19thcentury
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Burns & the Scottish Enlightenment in America
4 Aug, Robert Burns Ellisland Farm
Tickets by donationIan Houston will examine how the ideas that shaped Burns's world – liberty, equality, democracy, & human dignity – also influenced the emerging American republic
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/burns-and-the-scottish-enlightenment-in-america-tickets-1990854549550
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #poetry #Enlightenment #ScottishEnlightenment #18thcentury #America250
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The Glenriddell Manuscripts preserve Robert Burns’s own chosen poems & letters, illuminating his creative process. After his death, they went on an extraordinary journey before returning to Scotland. Ralph McLean, manuscripts curator for long 18th century collections at the National Library of Scotland, tells us more
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #manuscripts #18thcentury #poetry
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PPS – if you can’t watch the documentary on the iPlayer, it’s also on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwbuCL-Osh8
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #MayaAngelou
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PS – the whole of ANGELOU ON BURNS is currently available to watch on the BBC iPlayer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013vcs
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #MayaAngelou
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Here is Dick Gaughan performing “Scots Wha Hae”, to an audience that includes Dr Maya Angelou – from the documentary ANGELOU ON BURNS (first shown on BBC2, 1996)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx8hEoJNVdM
#Scottish #literature #Bannockburn #BattleofBannockburn #history #18thcentury #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #song #folksong #MayaAngelou
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In 1881 the New York Times, reviewing Helen Kendrick Johnson’s OUR FAMILIAR SONGS & THOSE WHO MADE THEM, asserted that no song was “more glorious”, & that once Burns’s poem had been set to the tune of “Hey, Tuttie Tatie”, it “marched through the land forever, loud, & triumphant”
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#Scottish #literature #Bannockburn #BattleofBannockburn #history #18thcentury #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #song #music #19thcentury
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The song quickly became popular, & the tune was adapted as “Marche des soldats de Robert Bruce” for the French army. It also features in the concert overture “Rob Roy” by Berlioz & the 4th movement of the “Scottish Fantasy” by Max Bruch 🏴🇫🇷
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE4eE20Dk5I
#Scottish #literature #Bannockburn #BattleofBannockburn #history #18thcentury #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #music #classicalmusic #19thcentury #ArmeeFrancaise
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Burns wrote that he was inspired by Bruce’s “glorious struggle for Freedom, associated with the glowing ideas of some other struggles of the same nature, not quite so ancient” – probably a reference to the Radical movement, & to Thomas Muir of Huntershill
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=evans;idno=N21038.0001.001
#Scottish #literature #Bannockburn #BattleofBannockburn #history #18thcentury #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #song #radicalism